Temperance Notes On Prohibition And Church Anti Alcohol Watch
The article surveys temperance efforts at Stanford and Mayfield against saloons, notes a Louisville secret society Knights of the Royal Arch formed to protect liquor interests, and mentions a Paris wine exhibit. It cites Bishop Galloway urging moral and legal action and cites Pope Leo XIII praising US Catholic leaders in combating intemperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford University
Mayfield
Louisville
Knights of the Royal Arch
Paris
Nancy
England
Bishop Galloway
Epworth League
Leo XIII
Ireland
United States
Baltimore
Nehemiah Responds With Witty Rhyme About Cold
A schoolmaster asks how cold is, to which Nehemiah replies with a playful triad. He quips that cold can be positive, comparative, or superlative in a clever linguistic twist. The exchange captures a light moment in a Tid-Bits style vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nehemiah
RED Cross
Hubinger
New Overland Limited to Debut on October Fifteenth
Union Pacific announces the Overland Limited will start October 15th with daily service from Salt Lake City at 11 45 a m to Chicago via Ogden Denver and Omaha. The train will be fastest western route to eastern points with minimal car changes and enhanced comfort. Additional notes detail Rio Grande Western dining cars added to through trains and Dining car service on Denver and Rio Grande routes. For details contact the Salt Lake City Old Stand at 201 Main Street or Rio Grande offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific R. R
Overland Limited
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Denver
Omaha
Chicago
New York
Boston
Washington
Main Street
Rio Grande Western Railway
Utah
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Colorado
S. K. Hooper
H. M. Cushing
West Second South Street
Our Budget of Fun and Witty Verses from 19th Century Humor
A humorous excerpt presents jokes and quips from a variety of sources. A maiden laments a postponed marriage due to an embarrassing nose boil, while George expresses concern over possible family misfortunes in a dark hallway.
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George
Hiram
Cascarets health charm touted in era advert
An old advertisement extols Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a health promoting remedy. It promises liver and bowels livelier, blood purified, brain braced, and general balance. The card urges trials, price options, and requests readers to order a booklet and sample. It also notes genuine Cascarets bear CCC on each tablet.
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United States
Cascarets
Sterling Rem
Eves
Chicago
Montreal
Can
Newark
Paris
Germany
Martin Luther
Catherine de Bora
Christ
Mirthful Quip Sparks in Pubic Bath Scene
Ally Sloper taunts Mike O Rooney Shure in a splashy exchange about taking pills. The comic dialogue presumes a chaotic health scare framed with humor in a public bath setting.
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Mike O’rooney
Ally Sloper
This Snapshot of an Express Train Sketch
The Indianapolis Journal panel features a quick snap of an express train moving at sixty five miles an hour with smoke rising straight upward as if unfinished. A wry aside notes the engine’s smoke line and the haste of the shot.
Thought Less Women In Health Improve With Vegetable Compound
Two letters from Mrs W V Bell Canton Ohio and Mrs A ToLie Philadelphia praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. Bell reports relief from womb prolapse pains fainting and backache after months of illness and doctors advice. ToLie says eight bottles restored health from weakness headaches backache and weight gain from 95 to 140 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. V. Bell
Walnut St
Canton
Lydia E Pinkham
Mrs. A. ToLie
Hilton St
Philadelphia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pin money and hurry cane punchline in a comic exchange
A young husband offers to bring pin money paper from town while his wife smiles. He jokes about a paper of ping replacing a downtown trip. The banter ends with a quip about a cyclone-like cane, prompting a playful jab at girls' sense of humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
The Cheerful Idiot and Sailor Snippet Exchange
A humorous exchange from the Indianapolis Journal features a boarder and the Cheerful Idiot riffing on rabbit rearing with hare lifting puns. Scraps from Town Topics circulate aboard a captured merchantman with a quip about a vacationing quartermaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
A Word to Married Men Advice on Women
A terse humor piece advises husbands not to mock their wives for foolish acts noting such acts came from marrying them, attributed to the Abingdon Enterprise Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abingdon Enterprise-Herald
Swanson's 5 Drops Proclaimed Miracle Cure
An advertising notice touts Swanson's 5 Drops as a universal healer saving public funds by health recovery. It claims cures for rheumatism neuralgia asthma la grippe and catarrh and offers a large bottle for $1 with prepaid shipping and a 25 cent sample. Agents are sought for Swanson's Rheumatic Cure Company based at 164 Lake Street Chicago Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swanson
Swanson’s
Rheumatic Cure Company
Lake Street
Chicago
Ill
Allen's Foot-Ease and Curative Claims Ad Mix
An assortment of old advertisements promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen burning feet and corns, a cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine, Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back guarantee, and various humorous clippings. It includes multiple product pitches and a partial fiction excerpt about promised reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
C. E. W. Grove
Balzac Quote on Superior Women and Character
A Balzac line extols women who resist charm and rely on intellect and moral strength. It frames female virtue as disciplined inner superiority rather than social graces.
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Balzac
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D. McNicoll
Canadian Pacific Railway
W. S. Dingman
Canadian Press Association
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Ocean
America
Dingman
Charlie
Feller
Capt. Kidd
Harry
Teddy
Raddey
New York Journal
Tom Middleton
Maud
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
The
Chicago Post
Matamoth
West Madison
Chicago Yass
OLGAR
Salt Lake Business College
South Street
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